The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

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Samuel J. Tilden owned property
in England valued at about 5000, 600
the result Of successful speculations on
tile London money market.
Prince Ferdinand, whom the mis-
| guided Bulgarians chose for their lead
er, wears a bracelet on either arm and
parts his hair in the middle.
Miss Braddon, the English novel.
ist, receives $1,000 for every serial
story, and as much more for the cheap
editions that follow the completion.
JENNY Lind Goldschmidt lives In
an attractive suburb of London, and,
though she is sixty-six years old, she
feels young and is intensely interested
in every musical event,
Duke Charles Theodore, of Ba-
varia; the physician brother of the En-
press of Austria, during a recent stay
at Moran, made no less than two hum
dred and twenty successful operations
at the eye inirmary of that town.
Rider Haggard, when a boy of
nineteen. was appointed private seere-
tary to Sir Henry Bulwer, then Gov
ernor of Natal He thus acquired ea-ly
but fruitful impressions Of Africa, In
which he laid the scenes of several of
his novels.
Prince Bismark was recently asked
for an autograph by young English
girl who professed extraordinary admit
ration for him; and wrote that she
would consider a few lines from him
an omen of happiness for her future
life. He sent her the following: '.Be-
ware, my child, of building castles in
the air; they are of all structures the
easiest to erect and the most difficult to
demolish.'
The Florence ca. T) Enterprise
says: The Pima Indians select sew
eral promising youths of their tribe
from time to time for repositories
of their traditions, Judge j. D.Walk-
er says, and they are carefully in
structed in the historical legends per-
tanning to their tribe, being required
to commit them faithfully to memory.
They in turn instruct their successors,
and thus preserve tho traditions in the
exact language recited by their ances-
tors of many years ago. They have
knowledge of the tribe that built the
old Case Grande and other vast build
ings, whose ruins now excite such in
terest and curiosity.
1t is told of Charles Stuart Calver-
ley, who wrote Ely Leaves" that
when student at Cambridge he was a
frequent visitor at the deans lodge.
One evening when he was there the
children's bedtime. came, and they
said: "Good night One little miss,
about five years of age, kissed her
father and mother and was leaving the
room. when her mother said: "Why!
my dear, are you not going to kiss
Mr. Calgerley?'' mo, mamma. Mr..
Calverley doesn't want to kiss me"
How do you know he doesn'tP" "Be-
cause, mamma, whenever he meets us
walking, at the back of the college,
he always kisses nurse, but he never
kisses me-
Armand Carrel, to whom a monu-
ment has just been erected at Rouen,
had a stormy career. He was advent
urous from the moment that he left St.
Cyr until he was shot by Emil de Cir
ardin, who swore on the tomb of his
adversary never to fight duel again.
When fighting in Spain in the Foreign
Liberal Legion, which was composed
of Erenchman and Italians, the Col
onel, an italian, thought he saw the
French waver, and said so. sYou lie. >"
retorted Carrel, and charged with his
men like a maniac. A year afterward
be was tried by court-martial and was
about to throw a chair at the Presi-
dent, when he was carried out of the
court by soldiers.